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EXPERIMENTS were carried out during August 1949 by this Department to determine, primarily, whether a method of seismic refraction shooting at sea developed during the last three years was applicable to deep water. Facilities were provided by the Air Ministry for this work to be undertaken in the Ocean Weather Ship Weather Explorer on one of her routine voyages. The area in which the work was undertaken lay within thirty miles of the meteorological position at lat. 53° 50′ N., long. 18° 40′ W., and in this area the depth of water was approximately 1,300 fathoms.
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HILL, M., SWALLOW, J. Seismic Experiments in the Atlantic. Nature 165, 193–194 (1950). https://doi.org/10.1038/165193c0
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